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Bill	Early childhood care and education; establishment of system, definitions, licensure.	Early childhood care and education; licensing. Requires the Board of Education to establish a statewide unified public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth to be administered by the Board of Education, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Department of Education. The bill transfers the authority to license and regulate child day programs and other early child care agencies from the Board of Social Services and Department of Social Services to the Board of Education and Department of Education. The bill maintains current licensure, background check, and other requirements of such programs. Such provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2021. The bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a plan for implementing the statewide unified early childhood care and education system and requires the Department of Social Services and the Department of Education to enter into a cooperative agreement to coordinate the transition. The bill also requires the Board of Education to establish, no later than July 1, 2021, a uniform quality rating and improvement system designed to provide parents and families with information about the quality and availability of certain publicly funded early childhood care and education providers and to publish the initial quality ratings under such system in the fall of 2023. This bill is identical to SB 578.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 1012	Virginia HB 1012 (2020)	bill		enacted	David L. Bulova	5	36	8	2020-01-07	2020-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/3b7f2d56-73fd-4e78-845c-ea3b299877d0	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1012	d9efdff5bac9f7b355e8547fff71b01eef844c98ffcea9da11248ace6a5645bd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1012 (2020) — Early childhood care and education; establishment of system, definitions, licensure.

Early childhood care and education; licensing. Requires the Board of Education to establish a statewide unified public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth to be administered by the Board of Education, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Department of Education. The bill transfers the authority to license and regulate child day programs and other early child care agencies from the Board of Social Services and Department of Social Services to the Board of Education and Department of Education. The bill maintains current licensure, background check, and other requirements of such programs. Such provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2021. The bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a plan for implementing the statewide unified early childhood care and education system and requires the Department of Social Services and the Department of Education to enter into a cooperative agreement to coordinate the transition. The bill also requires the Board of Education to establish, no later than July 1, 2021, a uniform quality rating and improvement system designed to provide parents and families with information about the quality and availability of certain publicly funded early childhood care and education providers and to publish the initial quality ratings under such system in the fall of 2023. This bill is identical to SB 578.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0860) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1012ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1012H2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (HB1012) (committee substitute) — source
5. Impact statement from DPB (HB1012H1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (26-Y 14-N) — 26–14 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N) — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health (9-Y 5-N) — 9–5 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (89-Y 11-N) — 88–11 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David L. Bulova — primary (person)
• Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
• Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
• Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
• Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104557D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2020-01-13 Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 referral-committee
• 2020-01-20 Impact statement from DPB (HB1012)
• 2020-01-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N)
• 2020-01-20 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2020-01-22 Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-22 Committee substitute printed 20105824D-H1 substitution
• 2020-01-22 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-23 Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education referral-committee
• 2020-01-30 Impact statement from DPB (HB1012H1)
• 2020-02-07 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-02-07 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-07 Committee substitute printed 20107715D-H2 substitution
• 2020-02-07 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-09 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-10 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-10 Committee on Education substitute rejected 20105824D-H1
• 2020-02-10 Committee on Appropriations substitute agreed to 20107715D-H2
• 2020-02-10 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1012H2
• 2020-02-11 Read third time and passed House (89-Y 11-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-11 VOTE: Passage (89-Y 11-N)
• 2020-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-12 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-02-27 Reported from Education and Health (9-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-27 Impact statement from DPB (HB1012H2)
• 2020-02-28 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-02 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-03-02 Passed Senate (26-Y 14-N) passage
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled
• 2020-03-12 Impact statement from DPB (HB1012ER)
• 2020-03-12 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-12 Signed by President
• 2020-03-17 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 17, 2020
• 2020-03-17 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 860 (effective - see bill) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3b7f2d56-73fd-4e78-845c-ea3b299877d0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).